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On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 10:31:47PM -0400, J.D. Falk wrote: > On May 7, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 11:20:24AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: > [ . . . ] > > > You don't register "with" a registrar, you register "through" them > > > with CORE. No matter who you register through, it lands in the same data > > > base. > > > > It is statements like these (which have appeared with some regularity > > in the past) that make me believe that IAHC/iPOC have in mind a single > > monolithic database for all TLDs... > > It's called DNS. It could be DNS -- I wrote a draft suggesting that and submitted it to the IAHC, and later implemented shared registry software that does exactly that -- but the model currently favored by iPOC etc seems to be a commercial database which generates zone files to feed to DNS. DNS is run, apparently, by possibly yet another contractor to CORE. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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